Special Education Post Baccalaureate Diploma Program
Faculty of Education
丁香园AV Calendar 2012 Spring
This program offers educators and health care professionals who work with children and adults with disabilities the opportunity to consolidate work in lifespan development and special education in a way that facilitates a common discussion ground. The course work emphasizes knowledge and skills about lifespan development, individual differences, and assessment and support. Emphasis is placed on understanding how challenges presented to families of children with disabilities change over time as children mature and as they make transitions across home, school and community contexts.
Required Courses
Students complete 22 units including all of
- EDUC 315-3 Individual and Developmental Differences in Children鈥檚 Language Acquisition
- EDUC 422-4 Learning Disabilities
- EDUC 426-4 Teaching Children and Youth with Special Needs
- EDUC 464-4 Early Childhood Education
and one of
- EDUC 322-3 Social Lives of School Children
- GERO 302-3 Health Promotion and Aging
and one of
- EDUC 424-4 Learning Disabilities Laboratory
- EDUC 427-4 Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings
Optional Courses
Students complete eight units from the following
- EDUC 323-3 Introduction to Counselling Theories
- EDUC 351-3 Teaching the Older Adult
- EDUC 382-4 Diversity in Education: Theories, Policies, Practices
- EDUC 423-4 Helping Relationships
- EDUC 428W-4 Nature and Nurture of Gifted Students
- EDUC 433-4 Philosophical Issues in Education
- EDUC 468-4 Cognition and Language in EAL Instruction
- GERO 300-3 Introduction to Gerontology
- GERO 401-3 Environment and Aging
- PSYC 354-3 Development of Children鈥檚 Thinking
- PSYC 355-3 Adolescent Development
- PSYC 356-3 Developmental Psychopathology